That includes a tortuous calculation of a 2% excise tax on net investment income.
It framed a tortuous, 75-word question which avoided all mention of the issue of indefinite re-election.
It involves a tortuous set of contractual relationships between as many as 150 companies.
The travel industry blames a tortuous visa process and a perception of poor treatment on entering the country.
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Even upbeat analysts and there are not many of them predict a tortuous path to any settlement, with much stalling on the way.
Every person in the room can relate, because each one of us has had a tortuous experience with doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies.
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Our correspondent says the election had been a tortuous process, and that Mr Pena Nieto is unlikely to see a quiet acceptance of the result.
Speaking for the Scottish Conservatives, David McLetchie said the first part of the bill was "creating a tortuous system" and the second part was "largely redundant".
The "wall" was a tortuous set of rules promulgated by Justice Department lawyers in 1995 and imagined into law by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court.
Filling such jobs is always a tortuous business in America, but Mr Obama has made it harder by insisting on a level of scrutiny far beyond anything previously attempted.
It is a tortuous process, and although the MEPs have significant input into the final legislation, it is the Council of Ministers, which is not directly elected, who have the real power.
In a tortuous television interview on June 10th, Mr Twigg struggled to say whether his party supported the rapid proliferation of the academy model, seeming to suggest that it was right for some failing schools but not generally.
Then, when the agency began to draft rules, it was harassed by Wall Street, Republicans in the House and the insurance industry into justifying it through a tortuous cost-benefit analysis, which has tied it up in bureaucratic purgatory for more than two years.
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But what has not been clear before is whether the common ancestor was, like the sea cow, aquatic and therefore whether elephants have undergone a tortuous evolutionary journey from water to land (when their remote ancestors changed from fish to amphibians) then back to water again, before finally returning to the land.
"The trip has been a bit tortuous but the important thing is that we are here and we're in a good mood, " said Benitez.
After requiring a fairly tortuous rain-hit two days before seeing off Juan Ignacio Chela on Thursday evening, Murray was back on court 20 hours later to face Baghdatis.
"Although the use of Midazolam in this case has already been decided, the case raises very thorny questions about whether Oklahoma will be executing a potentially innocent man with a potentially tortuous drug, " said Robert Dunham of the Death Penalty Information Center.
Second, we provide a lot of tortuous medical treatments before people die.
It is a reminder that, were Scots to back independence, this would mark the beginning and not the end of a long, tortuous process of negotiation between the Scottish and Westminster governments - over currency, the monarchy, the armed forces, North Sea oil revenues, pension rights and much more besides.
First, at a time when the government is vulnerable, the tortuous method by which a new leader is elected ensures at least three months of paralysis and infighting (so nothing new there).
When I was in the music industry one of the most interesting things I observed was the tortuous experience a successful debut artist goes through when conceiving and producing their always highly anticipated follow-up album.
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But, to appease the left, New Labour seems to have got itself into the ludicrous position of devising a balloting process that is tortuous enough to prevent the outcome for which many on the left thought it had been devised.
She was decommissioned in 1997, and the search for a final resting place has been tortuous.
Almost as remarkable is the tortuous path it has taken, a 10-year odyssey that has included four governors, multiple developers and the staunch opposition of two NFL franchises.
Mr Maliki eventually formed a government of national unity after nine months of tortuous negotiations.
Thirty Are Better Than One is not really about the Mona Lisa or even about art, but rather concerns the tortuous relationship between culture and media, a relationship beginning to play out in his own life as he became the first meta-celebrity.
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